Seafood Testing, Inspections and Audits

QC Tailored for the Seafood Industry

Today’s demanding consumers want fish and seafood with guaranteed quality and freshness, while also paying increasingly more attention to their chosen brand’s sourcing practices. In this market environment, seafood brands and retailers must keep their supply chains in top shape if they want to remain competitive.

Seafood Testing Expertise

QIMA has extensive expertise with quality control and compliance across every segment of the seafood industry. Our inspectors are highly trained in fish and seafood identification and grading techniques, as well as assessment of fish processing procedures. Using customizable checklists, our experts prepare comprehensive inspection protocols that combine international regulations, the standards of your destination market, and your in-house specifications.

Our sampling procedures follow the guidelines of the World Health Organization Food Code and ANSI/ASQC Z1.4 (ISO 2859-1), ensuring that all samples we collect are an objective representation of your shipment. We test a real sample, not a sample your supplier wants you to test.

Process control with a glazed/deglazed test and drip loss test to prevent food fraud

Standard size control to ensure uniform production in term of size and weight

Defectives check against international regulations, national standards, and your specifications

Microbiological tests

Seafood Lab Testing Expertise

Fully accredited QIMA labs offer a wide variety of tests that help you ensure quality and safety of your seafood. All our lab testing programs can be customized to your specifications and methodologies, as well as the standards of your destination market.